Traps

Fired CBS news producer Mary Mapes has a book out about the Bush National Guard Memo fiasco which cost her job. The article is mixed; Mapes acknowledges some error but continues to insist that the documents used were real despite the almost universal conclusion that they were not.

What intrigues me more is who circulated the fake documents. Who had motive and opportunity, as they say in the mystery novels. That would be the Republican Disinformation Machine. As a conspiracy it’s almost too perfect: kill a negative story by luring the press with juicy but easily refutable bait. And it worked perfectly; Bush’s failure to fulfill his National Guard commitment, which was never in doubt, was effectively removed from debate with the added bonus of making the press look lazy and biased. No one made any money off the affair so the only other likely motive would be as a political operation.

I have no proof of this, other than my belief that BushCheney and all his operatives are truly evil and will stop at nothing to achieve their twin goals of destroying effective government in this nation and transferring all wealth to their rich cronies. They have lied and dissembled many times before (remember t11.09he slurs against Anne Richards, Al Gore and Max Cleland or the Swift Boat lies about John Kerry) so this fits their M.O.

Of course, anyone can fall victim to a trap. I sometimes wonder if Iraq was Osama bin Laden’s clever trap to lure the US into an Islamic killing field and distract America from pursuing his own al-Qaeda organization. If it wasn’t his plan, I can only imagine that he is happy with the results nonetheless.

Just a thought.